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There is something about b[i]ing quoted that makes me feel happy

Anyways, I was thinking, how many people here have a quote they find describes them really well, it can be your own, or it can be from somewhere else. And please post your quote, I want to see some of what is come up with.

Here is mine:

"my skin is not my own" --- Leto Atreides, Children of Dune

Basicly, I feel that I was born into the wrong body, as if I could sum up all of my awkwardness with a single line by using those words. It is like I am not born into my own body and was born into someone else's. In the context of Children of Dune, the TV miniseries, the quote refers to Leto "merging" with the larva of the sand worm and gaining the abilities of the desert creatures while losing some other stuff. His life would be lived out in pain because of this descion, but it ultimatly caused the suffering on his planet to come to a temporary end.

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein

Right, well I hope you are happy now.

I cannot think of a quote that sums me up (or at least I cannot think of one right now).

How'd I manage that???

Here's an assortment. Some are mine, some have come from this board and some are from famous people:

I would have been perfectly happy living at home for the rest of my life if people would have slid food under the door and otherwise left me alone.

I look on mail as in intrusion into my life because receiving a letter means somebody somewhere expects you to ‘do’ something.

My ‘perfect’ house would have no clocks or calendars.

Smart people do well in school. Intelligent people realize that they’re not very smart. Enlightened people don’t even bother with the rest of us.

Experts don’t have the foggiest idea about what’s really going on.

The thing that separates ‘professionals’ from ‘novices’ is a piece of paper and a whole lot of wasted time.

Never believe anything. Constantly question everything. About 90% of all the stuff we know is based upon bad data and false assumptions.

Government, authority or supervision of any kind is out to get you.

When two or more people get together to collaborate on an idea you can be sure that it’s probably wrong.

‘Science’ is just a way for mankind to find ‘excuses’ for why things happen.

If Einstein hadn’t been ‘right’ he’d just have been another idiot.

Knowledge is what you make of it.

Technology is financial enterprise in disguise.

Our language does not describe our world but rather our role in it.

If I wanted a friend I would have made one.

The ‘C-clamp’ is the greatest invention of all time. The wheel is overblown.

A non-fire society would be very different.

Tools came before humans so the toolmaker should really be the tool-user or at least the tool-recognizer. We are basically ‘adapters’ and ‘adopters’ not inventors.

The mind is a wonderful thing to think about.

The mind is a wonderful thing to think about when you have the time.

If you’re thinking about your mind it probably means you’re just hungry.

We give ourselves far more credit than we’re really due.

Sensationalism is more fun than reality.

The Internet is a vast waste of space and time, which is to bad because the idea had possibilities.

We still eat meat but at least we’ve moved up to artificial caves.

If somebody comes up with a good idea some well-meaning person will eventually screw it up.

We’re still territorial life forms.

If our entire technological world vanished tomorrow we’d be hard pressed to find a place to get a cup of coffee.

I think, therefore I think that I need disability compensation or at least unemployment checks.

The answers are typically correct but it’s the questions that are usually wrong.

Life is a blast but when do we finally take-off.

I know everything that there is to know but make no guarantee any of it is correct.

I should have been a professional fetus.

The God of the Bible is a human perception and as they say in Hollywood has no relationship to actual events portrayed herein.

I’m here. Where are you?

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."
-Franklin Delano Roosevelt

I also like the quote by Hans Asperger that I have posted in my signature.
-OddDuckNash99-

Here's too short quotes.

"black iron prison". not really a sentence just a phrase, from P. K. Dick.

"Iron nails ran in." R. A. Wilson wrote that phrase in Masks of the Illuminati, but he didn't "write" it, he was quoting too, but it does bear repeating, "Iron nails ran in."

A last quote

So I turned myself to face me
but I never caught a glimpse
of how the others must see the Faker.
I'm much too fast to take that test.

that's David Bowie.

I like that one because my PE teacher used to call me Faker, and I have no idea how I seem to other people, although I am beginning to have suspicions.

There you are

I know what you mean. I love seeing myself quoted. It makes me feel good that someone else has taken the time to value what I say.

One of my favorite people to quote is Henry David Thoreau. He paved an intellectual and spiritual path for many others, myself included.

Here are a few that I really like:

Describing me?

"You talk like a book." -from one lead character to the other in an old BBC educational programme. It seemed so appropriate that it stuck permanently in my seven year old brain.

And also, equally appropriately:

"You're all quote." -from my all-time favourite book, which I'll refrain from plugging yet again.

Just to test out my string array functions (pseudo arrays, since the language doesn't have real arrays), I wrote a program that would automatically send a random quote for me. I populated it with 54 or so quotes for a thorough test on it, and it works perfectly.

I'm not so much into quotes, but I did enjoy using my random quote program. It might be because of the novelty of using a program I thought worked in a uniquely neat way though. It was cool, all I had to do was give the program some quotes to pick from, and press a hotkey (I made it windows key + enter), and it would automatically type it out and send it for me.

I have a person that I know, that after I was talking to him about the script I made, felt compelled to send me a file containing various quotes. He is clearly into quotes to have a collection of them.

thanks for sharing, ....


MyQ:my sig minus [,....]
with my addition it states perfectly how i stand in life, and always have stood

'sceptic' me, and that includes 'emotionally sceptic'

(now suppose that is auti aloofness)

innumerable other possibilities:
MyLanguage, both written and spoken, in either/and dutch-english and many 'surrounding' influences (including older versions of D/E, if not historically, than at least in awareness of former conventions of spelling), intent on seeking truth behhind accidental choice of word and turn of phrase - by means of phun rather than pun (sic) [....................]

IS one continuous stream of awareness of chance of linguistic digress, from and into yet another literary or whatever quote to a short string of (usually sung) music and other 'recordings'

my thought is all over the place, by means of splintered echoing maybe rather than broken mirroring;
and still i know there is individuality in the timing and selection

[but still: this is also why 'verbal' psychotherapy CANNOT work:
that is not in the functionality of my lannguage; it don't work toward 'katharsis' which is essential for emotional integration before being able to move on

the language becomes quicksandy

there is irony

there is me

o & once more: fragmentation [on the way to self-annihilation]

at once to be seen and to tracelessly disappear

o, oblionic oblivion, thine lure of never more having to be no more

Quoth the raven: Nevermore

I find it difficult to be totally objective about myself, so can't really sum myself up in a quote, but there are some I've seen that really resonate with me:

The plural of "anecdote is not "data" (my sig--a more sophisticated version of my mom's "one robin doesn't make a Spring")

The pain is inevitable, the suffering is optional.

You need to make peace with not being able to know everything in order to make a decision (jury instruction from the judge on a case from jury duty a few years ago).

There is no "bad" weather, just inadequate clothing. (OK, sort of a more sophisticated "be prepared")

I was passing rocks and trees like they were standing still! (From the ultrarunning world, progress is in the eye of the beholder)

I might be described as "Human, Not Otherwise Specified".

That one's just great.